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Originally Posted by Dreamliner
Bottom-line: don't let anyone fool you (or dissuade you), a calorie deficit WILL WORK all the way to the bitter end (wherever that is).
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You know me, math is math. Calorie deficit must work. And it has been. (regardless of the food choices... of which I can be a poster child for this notion)
I was more addressing the "last bit" in terms of my look and what I thought I needed to get to in order to remove the "last bit". This is speaking strictly in terms of fat loss.
At 205 (average weight for a long time) - 215 (weight as of Jan 2012, I ate a lot in November and December), and upper teens of BFP (which puts lean mass in the mid 160's range), I figured a total weight of upper 180's would net me a fairly "low fat" look with some muscle definition, but not ultra vascular (i.e. P90X after pics that they "advertise"). This is assuming that lean mass stays constant.
I am currently at 193.5 (wearing a dry-fit shirt, basketball shorts, drawers, socks). I am roughly 5 lb from my "target" weight wise. I would say that I am close, but not what I imagined. I am most definately slimmer than I was before, and I can see some definition in my abdomen, but I don't see that 5 more lb is going to get me my target look. So, lean mass must have went down. Not all that surprising though, I was under a calorie deficit and didn't do much working out/lifting for a good 6-8 weeks, easy.
Bleh, anyway, the quest continues.